St. Xavier’s College Mumbai MA Psychology Admission 2024

Online applications for admission to the MA Psychology (Lifespan Counselling) course are available at St. Xavier’s College Mumbai for the academic year 2024-2026.
The college is affiliated with the University of Mumbai, and the Department of Psychology started a Master’s degree course – M.A. Psychology: Lifespan Counselling in June 2019. This year, they are accepting applications for the fifth batch of this specific course.

Eligibility and Exam Pattern

Students with a Bachelor’s degree in any faculty or discipline have studied at least three papers in Psychology at the undergraduate level.
The total number of seats is 30. Allocation of seats is as mentioned below:

Management	5
Christian Minority	12
General Category	11
PWD Category	1
Special**	1

** The Special category is for the wards of transferred State / Central Government and Private Sector
employees, Defence Personnel, Ex-Servicemen, and Freedom Fighters; for students who have met with an
accident and also for award winners at the District / State / National Level in Sports or Cultural activities.

Also see – University of Madras MSc Psychology Admissions 2024

Selection procedure of St. Xavier’s Mumbai

Entrance (XET) + Interview
Name of the Entrance Test: XET 2024
Mode of Entrance Test: MCQ + Essay
Language of the Entrance Test: English
Total Number of Questions: 100
Negative Marking: NA

Topics for the entrance test:
Introductory Psychology, Social Psychology, Developmental Psychology, Counselling Psychology, Abnormal Psychology, Industrial Organizational Psychology, Cognitive Psychology, Experimental Psychology, and Psychological Testing and Statistics.
A merit score is then calculated as follows: Entrance test score (70% weightage) + Semester V marks (30% weightage). Merit scores are then ranked and used to create the merit list.